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PHOTOGRAPHIO PRINTING FRAME FOR VIGNETTING. No. 309,974.

Patented Dec. 30, 1884.

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CHARLES A..- NEEDHAllI, OFNEV YORK, Y., ASSIGNOR TO E. P. NEEDHAM 81; SGN, OF SAME PLACE.

PHOTOGRAPHlC-PRINTING FRAME FOR VIGNETTING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,974, dated December 30, 1884-.

Application filed June 12, 1884. (No model.)

all whom it may concern: analogous material C will be made of such a Be it known that I, CHARLES A. NEEDHARI, size that it may be inserted in any of the of New York, in the county of New York grooves a a a It may thus be arranged at and State of New York, have invented a cer different distances from the sensitized paper, tain new and useful Improvement in Phototo cause the light to act upon the same in any graphic-Printing Frames for Vignctting, of desired manner. which the following is a specification. At the ends of the rails B B,which are dis- I will describe a photographic printing tant from the rail Bflastopper, D, is arranged. frame embodying my improvement, and then It consists of a bar corresponding approXi- 10 point out the various features in the claim. mately in size to the rail B", and provided with In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 grooves (Z (Z (1, like the grooves a a a in the is a top view of a photographic-printing frame rails B B B, and which are adapted, when it embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is an is in place, to receive the adjacent end of the edgeview thcreofwith a stopper forming part piece of card or analogous material C. The 1 thereof removed a slight distance from the ends of the bar forming the stopper are proposition which it occupies when in use; and vided with shoulders c, which fit between the Fig. 3 is an end view of the frame with the rails BB. The extreme end portions lap over said stopper removed. the ends of the rails B B, and are provided Similar letters of reference designate corrcwith pins f, entering recesses located in the 20 sponding parts in all the figures. ends of the said rails B B; but said pins f Adesignates the printing-frame. 'l'thas the may extend from the ends of the rails B B, usual rabbet for the negative, the sensitized and enter recessesinthe extreme end portions paper to be printed, and, if necessary, also a of the bar forming the stopper, so that the pane of glass for protecting the latter. its stopper will be secured in place against acciback is removable, and consists, preferably,of dental detachment while in use. two sections hinged together and secured in It is advantageous to use a stopper with place by resilient buttons or bars pivoted to grooves for receiving the outer end of the 7 them, and adapted to be engaged with or dispiece of card or analogous material O,in order engaged from clips or catches on the frame that light shall he precluded from passing be 0 proper at pleasure. On the front of the box tween the latter and the stopper.

are rails B B B. Two of these rails,B B,ex 'When the stopper D is taken oil, and the tend lengthwise ofit, and the third of the rails, piece of card or analogous material C is re- B extends between the others. In the inner moved from the rails B B B the printing edges of these rails are grooves a a a The frame can be used for other purposes than groove a is formed in the side of the rails vignetting.

which is next the prmtingframe; but the others W hat 1 claim as my lnvention, and desire are formed entirely in the rails, and at differto secure by Letters Patent, isent distances from the printing-frame. The combination,with aphotographic-print G designates a vignetter. This may consist ing frame,A,ofrailsB B Bflarranged directly 4,0 of a piece of card or analogous material proon thefront,and provided with grooves a a,the vided with an aperture having its edges c t piece of card or analogous material C, and the suitably to produce the desired effect, or it stopper D, unconnected with the rails B B, 0 may consist of a piece of card or analogous and provided with grooves d d, substantially material provided with an aperture having as specified.

45 transparent and suitably-stippled paper ar- G. A. NEEDHAM.

ranged over the aperture, and secured in place Witnesses: adjacent to the aperture by mucilage or other T. J. KEANE, adhesive substance. The piece of card or E. T. Boone. 

